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Thursday, June 14, 2012

My Hair Story I

OHAI LADIES~!

Have you read my newest post? Yes, I'll be continuing the next part of the Bacolod Adventure with a review of the hotel where we stayed! Please wait for it.:) For now, I'll be telling you my hair story.

*WARNING*: This story might be too long for you to read and might bore you to death. Read at your own risk.

When I was 7years old to 11 year old (grade school days), my Aunt (my mother's sister) used to pay for our haircuts---yes, HAIRCUT. It's not trimming, my hair was as short as a pixie cut. My Aunt's reason was because we were still 'kiddos' who doesn't care about hair that much, so we (I) ought to have a very short hair. When I was 4-6 years old, I used to have chin to shoulder length hair. I still remember that I always have braided hair or pig tails, but when I started to learn to play--I mean to play like a boy--running around, going everywhere without a care what my appearance is, my aunt thought it's time to cut it really short.

I was not affected by hair commercials when I was younger (early grade school years). I always use JJ Baby Shampoo. My older cousin commented on our (my sister and I) hair since she told us our hair was shiny and soft.

I do not understand the "importance" of having a shiny and soft hair at that age.

I was REALLY chubby as a kid. Having a pixie hair cut made it more obvious. At first I did not care what kind of haircut I have--if it suits my chubby face, etc.--but since I was already in the stage of "physical awareness" (late grade school years), I started to "hate" my hair. At grade 5-6 you start to notice other people's appearance more. I will deny (if I'm still at that age) that I start to have crushes and stuff. It was the start of adolescence stage. I start to notice my horrible hair.

I was then affected by the hair commercials, especially the hair commercial of Rejoice. Without my mom knowing, I switched shampoos and started using Rejoice (my mom was using Rejoice). She warned us about Rejoice before (even if she's using it); she told us that we should not use it since we still have very young scalp and Rejoice might still be too harsh for our scalp (and hair). When I was a child, more often than not, I didn't heed my mother's warning. It looked good on the commercial, so MAYBE it is good. Plus my mom was using it.

As an adolescent, I felt nothing was wrong while using it (my observation powers involving products that I use were not as sharp as today). I did not even dilute the Rejoice shampoo with water! I liked how it smells and the bubbles it formed. After using it for quite a while, my hair nightmares started.

The "Rejoice Nightmare" incident started around 1996-1997; this was the year where they started to change their shampoo formulation and packaging. BAM. Lesson learned: Mothers know best. The formula was too harsh for my scalp. So yes, this is why it turned out to be a nightmare. My super short hair started to be very dry, course and always tangled. Another thing that happened was my straight hair started to look "kinky", it's as dry as a broom! At that time no matter how I comb my hair, it always always sprung back to its 'kinky' state. Imagine a kinky hair on pixie cut on a chubby kid. GUHHH.

I always got teased (by my guy cousins) after what happened to my hair. They told me that I should use a dog's shampoo, because dog's hair/fur looked and felt better than my hair. :( My cousins are just older by 3-4 years than me, at that time they did not know what were the impacts of what they're saying. I can not blame them though, it was my fault that I ruined my hair.

I stopped using Rejoice and went back to my JJ Baby shampoo but it was too late. At grade six, I graduated with a kinky-short-dried-hair and very low self-confidence. (As much as I want to post some pictures, I won't. haha.:P Maybe next time when I have time to search my old photo albums.)

Summer time. We had Visita Iglesia and at every church my prayers were: "Thank you for my family, blessings, etc." "Sorry for my mistakes/bad things I've done, etc." AND "Please, Please, Make my hair grow longer and softer." Amen.

*Part two will be up next time*

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